Explore divination as a daily ritual that can be incorporated into any writers’ practice.


For more information and FAQs about how our courses work, please go to our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages.
Explore divination as a daily ritual that can be incorporated into any writers’ practice.
Find poetry in everything as we explore the lyric form.
Delve into the fabric of what we wear and why to serve fire new looks in your poetry.
Discover the art of capturing fleeting moments and imbuing them with poetic significance.
'Into the woods without delay / But careful not to lose the way.'
Challenge and choice in developing your voice.
Free your practice as we dive into the murky waters of lying, stealing, & unreliable narration.
Explore the unseen labour, life-long love, and private languages of family relationships.
Take left turns and unusual routes, as we explode the expected in your poetic journey.
Enjoy close exploration of this exquisite Japanese form.
Get into seriously playful poetic forms at the experimental edge.
Locating the liminal in conceptual emulsion – poetics at the unfathomable edge.
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, teacher, and children's writer, Penny Boxall.
Get innovative with lyrical essays, poethics, and manifesti.
Crafting connection – poetic body meets world.
Writing in response; capturing the life of poetry, in poetry.
Join the great poetic conversation and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise, and answer back.
A new tool for a very fresh form – get to grips with the golden shovel!
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career
Kinetic poetics, shifts and what they might reveal.
Explore the possibilities of visual poetry by engaging with the work of some of the most exciting visual poets of all time.
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
An exciting, advanced poetry workshop with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Current Latin American poetry – an invitation to resistance.
French Poetry in the time of Revolt.
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
‘Talking to me?!’ Unravelling speakers, readers, poets, and their addressees.
How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Kathryn Simmonds.
Peek at queerness out the corner of your eye and learn to write into your subconscious.
Explore the poetic connections between food, family, love, and legacy.
Writing the Pleasure of Observation, Commentary, and Awe.
Unsticking a stuck poet.
‘Doesn’t sound like no sonnet, my lord’
Explore and experiment with your voice to develop new forms of embodied writing and performance.
Close reading the word and the world.
Fear and fantasy – exploring the wonder of Spielberg’s Jaws
The Poetry School’s teaching year runs over three ‘terms’ – Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each term we offer around 40-50 courses and workshops that cater to a variety of levels, varying in length and subject matter. The course programme changes every term with more new courses, workshops and tutors, but often includes courses that run over three terms and popular repeats.
We offer both ‘classroom’ teaching (UK) and ‘virtual’ teaching (international). You can visit our In-Person Courses, Video Courses and Online Courses pages for more detailed information about course structures, process and what to expect.
Most of our courses and workshops accommodate writers with a wide range of experience, but some are specifically designed for beginners or more practicised poets.
Here are our definitions:
Our programme is developed around these three teaching levels, although we also offer many courses that are Open to all – courses aimed at all levels, often focusing on a specific theme or inspirational subject matter.
‘Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm’ – OED
‘Poetry is a heightened imagistic use of language that does things to the heart and head’ – Grace Nichols
‘A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language’ – Edward Hirsch
‘Poetry is memorable speech’ – W H Auden
‘Poetry does not explain life. It gives life to feeling and seeing’ – Sarah Stetie
‘Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not’ – Samuel Johnson